Dallas, Texas, will be the biggest city in the path of totality
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It may occur only from within a path 115 miles (185 kilometers) wide and 10,000 miles (16,000 km) long, but the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, will be one of the most urban eclipses for decades.Â
“The total eclipse of the sun next April 8 will envelop many millions of people,” Michael Zeiler, eclipse cartographer at GreatAmericanEclipse.com, told Space.com in an email. “31 million people already live inside the path within the U.S., and when you add the millions more Mexicans and Canadians in the path, plus the visitors who come to see totality, between 40 and 50 million people will witness the total solar eclipse.”
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From Mazatlán and Torreón in Mexico via big cities in Texas, Indianapolis and Montreal in Canada, millions of city-dwellers across North America will witness totality from a city. About 10 million will be in just 10 cities, each with populations above 500,000.
Here are the most significant 10 cities in the path of totality — and what’s being planned in each of them:Â
All times, totality durations and historical cloud statistics for April 8, 2024, come from the Eclipse Calculator — City Lookup on Timeanddate and eclipse expert Xavier Jubier’s interactive Google Map. Â
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